I f you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made largely of water ice—the most obvious sign that Mars was once a wetter ...

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The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

The three-kilometre-thick ice sheet covering Mars's north pole is young, formed between 2 and 12 million years ago. The ice sheet is bending the rocky crust beneath at a rate of 0.13 millimetres per ...

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new analysis.

remains on the surface of the regolith as stable adsorbed water. The study also showed that the soil on Mars could keep ice near the surface in the middle and lower areas because water vapor moves ...

Scientists searching for the fossilized remains of ancient microbes on Mars now have ... That liquid water has now all gone, either frozen into polar ice caps or as permafrost beneath the surface ...

The ferrihydrite might have formed back when there was still water ... to cover Mars, becoming incorporated into the underlying rocks. Volcanic activity could also have triggered ice-melting ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mars's northern ice cap is relatively young, with an estimated age between 2 and 12 million years. The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a ...